It’s Summertime, and the living is easy, as the lyrics from an old song go. I’m sitting here engaging in some transcendental vegetation so I thought I would share on this July summer’s day just a few observations about life I’ve picked up along the way. One is that, since I graduated, I realize no one has ever asked me to conjugate a verb or decline a noun and I have never found a reason to have taken algebra. Another is to give your wife candy instead of flowers on her birthday or Valentine’s Day. She can’t give you advice when her mouth is full. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Both quitting smoking and dieting are a snap. After about three weeks of trying, you snap! When writing a resume, you must give the impression that you can do the job without giving the impression you need the job. There are letters or calls you can never expect to hear in a lifetime, for example, “This is the Canada Revenue Agency. We owe you a lot of money”. Isn’t it amazing how much can be accomplished in a day if you don’t happen to bump into someone who is going through a divorce, just had a new baby, just quit smoking, just had surgery, or just started a new diet? And I’ve noticed even though they now say 1 in 2 Canadians will contract some form of cancer and as baby boomers age there are more and more cases of other debilitating diseases such as dementia, the average lifespan for a person today is around 82 years. A hundred years ago it was about 47. I guess that means back in the good old days people were a lot healthier when they died.
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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
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